attach to a socket in localhost:8787

I've worked on debugging a remote connection a few weeks
ago,
may be you can use that to analyse the problem:

set debug remote 1

It will give you packet exchanged between gdb and the
server.

Denis

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

>On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 09:14:07AM +0100, op132650cmail.telepac.pt wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>i would like to debug my program remotely, attaching
my the gdb to a socket on
>>localhost:8787. How can i do that?
>>
>>I've tried target remote 127.0.0.1:8787 and it
doesn't work. Ie, the Jboss
>>application server aborts.
>>    
>>
>
>Sorry, but we need a lot more information about what
you're doing to
>help.  What's running on that port - is it gdbserver? 
Does it abort
>when you connect or when you try to step or...?
>
>  
>